Bonfiyah 4.0 is here
Bonfiyah 4.0 is here, and it’s the version I’ve wanted to put in your hands from the start.
It remembers the conversations that matter: what was promised, what was decided, the name you swore you wouldn’t forget. Now it does that inside an app that feels like it belongs on your iPhone, iPad and Mac, and it has months of daily, real-world use behind it.
This is the Bonfiyah I’m proud to ask you to try.
How we got here
When I shipped the first version in June, it worked beautifully on my own devices, in my own meetings. Then real people started using it, with their own devices, habits and expectations, and it showed me everything I hadn’t found yet.
Some of you hit crashes. Some of you opened the app, couldn’t tell where to start, and closed it. If that was you, I’m sorry. I don’t blame you for a second, and you’re the person I most want to hear from now.
So I stopped promoting it and went back to work.
What the last few months looked like
I went quiet on purpose. No launches, no announcements, no asking anyone to try it. Just the work of turning something that worked for me into something that works for everyone.
The interface. I rebuilt most of it, and it ships as Bonfiyah 4.0. The first version was laid out the way I think, which is not always the way someone picking up an iPhone for the first time thinks. The new one behaves the way you’d expect an app built only for Apple devices to behave. Things are where you reach for them, it looks and feels at home on iPhone, iPad and Mac, and there are far fewer taps between you and what you came for.
The bugs and crashes. I fixed a lot of them. Some were obvious. Others only showed up after hours of recording, on one particular device, on a bad connection, in the middle of a conversation that mattered. I won’t walk you through every one here (the highlights are on the What’s new page), but the crashes that made people give up are the ones I chased first.
The testing. Several months of it, and not in a lab. I’ve recorded my own days with Bonfiyah the whole time: meetings, calls, doctor visits, the conversation in the hallway afterward. If something was going to break, I wanted it to break on me first.
The loop that makes it better every day
In AI circles people talk about RSI, recursive self-improvement: a system that gets better at the thing that makes it better. My version is smaller and much more practical, and it has become the way Bonfiyah gets built.
I use it all day. When something is off (a label that confuses me, a screen that takes one tap too many, a transcript that misses), I capture it while it’s fresh. The fix goes in, the next build lands on my phone, and the next day’s use finds the next thing.
Use it.
Fix what it got wrong.
Use the better version tomorrow.
Every day of real use pays for that day’s fixes. Months of that compounds into a different product.
Not perfect. Ready.
I’m not going to tell you it’s perfect. It isn’t. So much of the interface is new that you may still run into a rough edge or two, the way you would with any new release. If you’re new to Bonfiyah, every new account starts with a 14-day free trial, so there’s no commitment beyond a few minutes of your time. If you’ve been here before, the 4.0 update is free, and it’s waiting for you in the App Store.
But the major problems from earlier appear to be resolved and ironed out, and I’m saying that after months of daily use rather than a good week. For the first time, I believe Bonfiyah is worthy of the general public.
That’s the bar I was waiting for before I asked you again.
Why I care this much
This is a passion project in the truest sense. I didn’t set out to build a company; I just wanted to learn AI, and I kept pulling the thread until it became something I couldn’t put down.
I built Bonfiyah because the conversations that matter most in my life happen in person, across a table or in a parking lot, and they were the ones I remembered worst. I still believe that problem is worth solving well. Not good enough. Extremely well.
Continuous improvement is the best way I’ve found to achieve excellence. It’s what I do.
I write.
I build.
I publish.
I iterate.
One of my gifts is speed. The loop behind Bonfiyah 4.0 is how I’ve always worked; the app is just the latest thing to run through it.
Intelligence plus curiosity plus experience plus skill plus speed. That’s the human version of RSI.
So I’m committed to it for the long run. I read every piece of feedback, and I fix what I hear.
The ask
If you tried Bonfiyah before and walked away, please give it one more try. Update to 4.0, or reinstall it from the App Store, and use it for a week of real conversations. If you want to see what changed before you do, start with What’s new.
If you never tried it, this is the version I’d want you to meet first.
And if something breaks, tell me. Message me here or write to me directly. I’d rather hear about it than have you quietly give up on it.
Rebuilt.
Retested.
Ready for you.